Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
G. K. CHESTERTONReason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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The past is not what it was.
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